Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO)
Reduce hidden ownership risk and meet AML rules by identifying UBOs and PSCs in complex, international structures.
Opaque ownership structures create compliance blind spots. Teams need accurate UBO and PSC checks to avoid risky partnerships, meet AML rules, and speed up onboarding.
Red Flag Alert’s UBO solution helps you onboard businesses faster by instantly revealing who owns and controls them. Identify UBOs and PSCs, map global structures, and screen for PSAM in one place.
Automatically uncover all Ultimate Beneficial Owners and Persons of Significant Control, including those with as little as 0.01% ownership, to see the real picture.
Visualise corporate trees and ownership chains across UK and international entities, helping you follow control through layers without stitching together multiple sources.
Check every UBO and PSC against sanctions lists, PEP databases, and adverse media, with the results stored securely in a single, audit-ready record.
Track changes in UBOs, PSCs, or ownership percentages over time, and set up real-time alerts to keep your AML files and risk decisions up to date.
Select the UBO and PSC checks you need, run them in one place, and review ownership, control, and screening results for faster, compliant onboarding.
Enter or import a business for review. Red Flag Alert will pull the latest company, shareholder, and control data from trusted sources.
Ownership and control are mapped automatically, revealing UBOs and PSCs in a single view with shareholdings, roles, and signs of influence.
Screen every UBO and PSC against sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media, record your reviews, and set up monitoring to capture changes in an audit-ready record.
From faster onboarding to stronger compliance, UBO and PSC checks help your teams make smarter decisions with improved clarity and confidence.
Show regulators you’ve gone beyond basic checks by evidencing how you identified UBOs and PSCs, screened them, and recorded decisions consistently.
Cut the time spent piecing together ownership from multiple sources, speeding up onboarding and refresh cycles without cutting corners.
Spot complex or unusual ownership patterns and individuals linked to sanctions, PEPs, or adverse media before they become a problem.
Many companies still rely on manual registry searches and spreadsheets to understand who controls a business, which makes it easy to miss links and hard to prove reasonable UBO and PSC checks.
Red Flag Alert turns this into a clear, digital process, giving you a single view of ownership, control, and screening results with an audit-ready record for every case.
Accountancy
Manchester
“We’ve been working with Red Flag now for the last five years in what’s been a very, very steep growth journey for us and it’s been a very, very valuable partner.”
UBO and PSC checks work best when integrated into your wider AML processes, so that every customer is assessed consistently from first contact through to ongoing monitoring.
UBO and PSC checks are part of our Lifecycle Intelligence and Automation solution, helping you spot risky clients early, speed up onboarding, and monitor portfolios.
UBO and PSC checks sit within Onboarding and Compliance, helping teams verify ownership, screen for risks, and maintain audit-ready records for each new relationship.
UBO and PSC checks work with Portfolio Monitoring, so you can track changes in control, spot risks early, and trigger reviews before risk, fraud or sanctions issues escalate.
A UBO is any person who ultimately owns or controls a business, even with small shareholdings or indirect influence. A PSC is a UK-specific term for someone with at least 25% of shares or voting rights, or significant influence over a company.
Criminals often split ownership below 25% to avoid disclosure while still exercising control. Checking UBOs down to 0.01% helps close this loophole and strengthens your AML compliance.
Red Flag Alert updates company, shareholder, and control data twice daily from trusted sources and uses continuous monitoring to alert you to any ownership or control changes.
Red Flag Alert flags any UBO or PSC linked to sanctions, PEPs, or adverse media, providing a detailed report. You can then assess the risk and take appropriate action.
Yes. Red Flag Alert provides global coverage, allowing you to identify UBOs and PSCs across complex international corporate networks, including offshore entities.
Yes. Red Flag Alert offers continuous monitoring, so you’ll receive alerts if there are changes in UBO ownership, control, or risk status, ensuring your records stay up to date.
No. Red Flag Alert’s UBO data is designed to be easy to understand, so any team member can investigate ownership structures without specialist training.
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